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... Dent ( d . 1926 ) Edited by Ernest Rhys ( d . 1946 ) POETRY & THE DRAMA POEMS AND PLAYS • BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH · INTRODUC- TION AND NOTES BY AUSTIN DOBSON OLIVER GOLDSMITH , born at Pallasmore , Co. Longford ,. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY.
... Dent ( d . 1926 ) Edited by Ernest Rhys ( d . 1946 ) POETRY & THE DRAMA POEMS AND PLAYS • BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH · INTRODUC- TION AND NOTES BY AUSTIN DOBSON OLIVER GOLDSMITH , born at Pallasmore , Co. Longford ,. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY.
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... poet upon the tradition of some youthful couplets to a pretty cousin , who had married a richer man . As it was , if he could not be said " to have seen life steadily , and seen it whole , " he had , at all events , inspected it pretty ...
... poet upon the tradition of some youthful couplets to a pretty cousin , who had married a richer man . As it was , if he could not be said " to have seen life steadily , and seen it whole , " he had , at all events , inspected it pretty ...
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... poet , " it must have been solely upon the strength of the unpublished fragment of The Traveller , which in the interval , he had sent to his brother Henry from abroad . It is even more remarkable FO g y d h t that although so skilful ...
... poet , " it must have been solely upon the strength of the unpublished fragment of The Traveller , which in the interval , he had sent to his brother Henry from abroad . It is even more remarkable FO g y d h t that although so skilful ...
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... poetry in particular , it is easy to collect them from this , and later utterances . Against blank verse he protests from the first , as suited only to the sublimest themes - which is a polite way of shelving it altogether ; while in ...
... poetry in particular , it is easy to collect them from this , and later utterances . Against blank verse he protests from the first , as suited only to the sublimest themes - which is a polite way of shelving it altogether ; while in ...
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Oliver Goldsmith. stage of character and humour . Among the poets who were his contemporaries and immediate predecessors , his likes and dislikes were strong . He fretted at the fashion which Gray's Elegy set in poetry ; he considered it ...
Oliver Goldsmith. stage of character and humour . Among the poets who were his contemporaries and immediate predecessors , his likes and dislikes were strong . He fretted at the fashion which Gray's Elegy set in poetry ; he considered it ...
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